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Jawle camp lies on a windswept plain north of the town of Garowe, in Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland. Some 1,500 displaced families from all over the country live in temporary shelters at the camp. Many have travelled great distances to escape conflict or severe food shortages in their...

UN agencies and humanitarian partners are helping to support thousands of South Sudanese who are stranded in Kosti in Sudan’s White Nile State.
The State Governor has called for the 12,000 – 15,000 stranded people, and the international organizations that are helping them, to leave...

The Philippines is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. One third of its population of 94.9 million people live below the poverty line and are vulnerable to the typhoons, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that plague the country.
In 2011, there were 21 natural disasters in the...

Conflict and displacement in northern Mali are continuing to exacerbate the food and nutrition crisis throughout drought-affected areas of the Sahel region, OCHA has warned.
“Across the region, more than 15 million people, including 3.5 million Malians, will be affected by severe food...

Crammed into a four-wheel-drive car, OCHA Humanitarian Affairs Officer Gilbert Sengamali and colleagues from the UN and local NGOs are on their way from Bukavu in South Kivu to the Shabunda region, where they will assess the needs of displaced people. Ongoing conflict in this part of eastern Democratic...